Friday, May 02, 2008

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2008

Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word, to those who have been blogging and commenting and to everyone who has come to read the contributions.

Because the archive (below) tends to get very large, this year, I asked other bloggers to link to posts of particular note at their own blogs in order to increase traffic (and to take some of the pressure of me compiling the archive at super-sonic speed).

Both Seahorse and Rachcreative included some of their favourite blogs in their BADD entries< href="http://beautyoffensive.blogspot.com/2008/05/badd-little-goes-long-way.html">here and here. I know I've seen other lists too, but someone will have to remind me where!

Please point out if I make any mistakes - and thanks very much to everyone who has so far.

Blogging Against Disablism 2008

Employment(Disability discrimination in the workplace, recruitment issues and unemployment).

Other Access Issues(Posts about any kind of access issue in the built environment, shops, services and various organisations. By "access issues" I mean anything which enables or disenables a person from doing what everyone else is able to do.)

Disablism Interacting with Other 'Isms'(Posts about the way in which various discriminations interact; the way that the prejudice experienced as a disabled person may be compounded by race, gender, age, sexuality etc..)

173 comments:

I am blogging against disablism and will have the post up by 11:30 pm Wednesday April 30th. I will say however that coming here at say, 3:00 and seeing, "Welcome to Blogging against disabilism" which I KNOW is on May 1st and since I have a VERY hard time keeping months much less days straight threw me into a panic.

I'm in California, so it's still 30 April here, but we're the tail end of the date change, so I know it's already 1 May someplace! Here's my link:http://disstud.blogspot.com/2008/04/badd-2008-celias-retreat.html

Dave Hingsburger here and my post is now up ... it's at www.davehingsburger.blogspot.com and it's called Blogging Against (My) Disablism Day. Once again, Goldfish, this is a wonderful day. Thanks, Dave

Hi! I've got a post up called "More, more more" and think it fits into the 'disablism and politics' category: http://grendelskitchen.com/2008/05/01/more-more-more/ . This is such a wonderful thing you are doing! Thank you!

Here I am! http://myveryownkarma.blogspot.com/2008/04/there-are-days.htmlI guess I'd call it personal journey category. Thanks for taking the time and I look forward to reading and commenting on everyone's blogs!

Many thanks for doing this all over again this year.. I'll try to do a "best of" post later today.. my BADD post is on http://kethry.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/badd-i-dont-suffer-from-disabilism/ and category i think is General Thoughts on Disabilism.

Written in the voice of my daughter who is 8 years old and has T21. Daily she tells people, "I hate that baby talk". She is smart enough to know when people are talking down to her and she's had enough!

Hi, here's my offering this year: http://sunnydreamer.net/aprjun2008/everyone_has_disability.shtml . It's title is "Everyone Has a Disability of Some Sort". And I believe it fits under General Thoughts or Definition of Disability.

I haven't finished mine yet. I am rubbish. I've been attempting to write it for about five hours now, but I am just not creative today. Which is irritating. Will you accept late entries? Maybe I'll be able to write in full sentences tomorrow...

http://wheelchairprincess.com/blog/2008/05/01/badd-2008-links-and-thoughts-and-such-like/ is my post and it's a "personal journey" as well as a collection of links - mostly to my own older posts but to a post on another persons blog too.

Hello there Goldfish - I just got the link to you from the dis-an-dat blog of Beth Haller and think you got a great thing going here. I do not see a category for the Arts but more specifically since my art is in the motion picture and television industry and since it does incorporate so much from employment and the fair and equal access to the social impact it will have on the disAbled community and society as a whole - maybe the best is in the Employment category?

I am also not sure which of the entries to specify - so I think it's best to just link to my blog itself at http://LarrysBlog.AbilitiesUnited.com At any rate I love what you're doing here and as I tell people all the time is that I do not want to be treated "normally" whatever that is - but to do as I do an not only recognize but also respect my disAbility and be treated "equally" just anyone else. My disAbility - just as with all those with a disAbility is just as significant to my identity as my race, gender, age, nationality and should have the same representation as each of those factors in my identity!

I am not really sure what category it should go in. It's about my boyfriend being willing to teach tai chi to ANYONE who shows up, no matter what their physical condition, as illustrative of the title principle. It also happens to be a Love Thursday post, because it's also Love Thursday, and love and disablism are a contradiction in terms. So please choose a category that pleases you, and I won't complain. :)

We are brave. We are fragile. We want to live, and we want to end it all. We look for support and we want to stand alone. We are Everyperson. We are the People with Multiple Sclerosis. We are People, Just Like You.File under health I suppose...http://asbocat.blogspot.com/

I finished my post by midnight in my own timezone, but it's mostly a short list of recent links. I suppose it's probably mostly "Personal Journey," although several of the links fall under "Interacting with other Isms."Not quite what I was hoping to accomplish today, but I have hope to be able to write more later this month.

My post is here, and is a Personal Journey Post. It doesn't deal with discrimination but with my own identity as a woman with a limb defect. There are themes about sexuality but no graphic or "adult content."

I want to submit a post I did in March about my experiences being in regular education with Asperger syndrome and non-verbal learning disability. The link to the post is here. I think this would go best under education.

Sorry about how long it's taken me. Hope I'm still eligible for inclusion! 'Getting Personal' - http://lilwatchergirl.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogging-against-disablism-2008-getting.html - should probably go in the 'political' category. To my eternal chagrin.

What a great idea! I just wish I'd known about this sooner! It's definitely on my calendar for next year. For now, here's what I was able to put together at the last minute: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-UX.egAk9eqINF4O3lz41vDM-?cq=1&p=166

Here's my links collection, focusing mainly on blogs I hadn't visited before (there were a lot of excellent posts at my favorite blogs too, but I would have read them with or without BADD):http://disstud.blogspot.com/2008/05/badd-skimmed-and-overheard.html

I'd like to make one suggestion for next year: I wonder if a volunteer or a team of volunteers could compile all of the posts (including links, images, etc) into a completely plain, easily-readable format, with links back to the originals for comment reading/writing?

I'm finding it really hard going physically reading many of the posts - switching from black text on purple, orange on black, pale on blue, and so on. Figure I can't be the only one.

I finally finished! I have finally read every single blog post listed here! (Well, almost. I couldn't get a translation of the Turkish entry, but that doesn't mean I'm not happy to see it here. Wish there were more non-English entries, actually, and I expect that as this event grows in future years, there will be -- you know, unless we actually manage to eradicate disablism and no one has anything further to say about it.)

I am so completely blown away by this year's entries. You are all so smart, so impassioned, and so freakin' interesting! And you all have so much to say that is worth hearing and thinking about. I feel like I've been to college.

Thank you all so much. And thank you especially, Ms. Goldfish, for creating this and for your hard work sustaining it.

Despite missing that May 1st was BADD, I inadvertantly participated when I posted "A Culture of Life?" on Thursday night at Yeah, but Houdini Didn't Have These Hips. It's a post about how conservative lawmakers in Missouri (and elsewhere) are eviserating programs that support children with special needs. They call themselves "pro-life" but their policies can only encourage women - especially those of us who learn that our children will have disabilities while we're pregnant - to choose abortion.

Despite missing that May 1st was BADD, I inadvertantly participated when I posted "A Culture of Life?" on Thursday night at Yeah, but Houdini Didn't Have These Hips. It's a post about how conservative lawmakers in Missouri (and elsewhere) are eviserating programs that support children with special needs. They call themselves "pro-life" but their policies can only encourage women - especially those of us who learn that our children will have disabilities while we're pregnant - to choose abortion.

I have enjoyed looking through the posts and am amazed at the networking here. I would like to invite anyone using assistive technology to contribute to our AT Blog Carnival once a month at: http://atblogcarnival.blogspot.comI have linked to this in a post on my No Limits to Life Blog at www.nolimits2life.com/blogThanks!

Hey Goldfish!I've been reading your blogs.. You are an awesome woman. Somehow I can well relate to your feelings because I'm disabled too.. I just dropped by to say Hi! You inspire many.. Keep on blogging. Take care and wishing you all the best, Naiza :)

I think all of you guys are doing a great job by speaking out and making you cause heard!

I work for CitizenShift, a global outreach program, and we are re-releasing a dossier of ours entitle: "To Break Through: (dis)Proving (dis)Ability" and it features athletes, performers and achievers from Canada that have dealt with thier physical disabilities and done wonderful thing!

Info about this came to me via one of the email lists I'm on. I'm forwarding it to some others I'm on, and I've created an event on Facebook, as well. If you don't end up collecting posts this year, I might be able to.